Ford Mustang V8 GT Coupe Premium '07
@DaBomm4 – 1:19.981
DC - 7
This car has always had a massive problem with understeer, don't know what causes it but that's just the way it is. This tune felt initially promising through the first few corners, the understeer was still there but it was manageable, the car didn't hold its speed well through the corners but it was definitely an improvement. I was quite enjoying it until the last corner where that understeer came back with a vengeance, it just gave up halfway through and sent me off into the desert. The only way I could combat the understeer was to back right off the throttle as soon as I entered and coast through the entire section, even then I'd often have to brake to get the nose tucked in. This just killed the times, it wasn't bad round the rest of the circuit, not fast but definitely usable, it just lost time hand over fist in the last section.
Ford Mustang Boss 302 '13
@787bcgr – 1:17.792
DC - 6.5
Didn't really know what to make of this car, seemed to change its characteristics from corner to corner, sometimes it had loads of grip, sometimes it would just let go for no apparent reason. I just couldn't work out what the car wanted me to do with it, sometimes it responded to aggressive driving, sometimes it needed you to be butter smooth. this would have been fine if the car gave more feedback but I just couldn't get any feeling from it, I found myself approaching corners with no idea where I was supposed to be braking or aiming for in order to get the car out the other side as fast as possible, it was always just a case of chucking and chancing it.
@Bowtie-muscle – 1:17.743
DC - 7.5
Didn't have any major problems but it didn't excel anywhere either. The car seemed to have a slight delay between steering input and the car reacting, I can only put this down to the soft rear springs slowing the weight transfer. It wasn't a major problem but took a few laps to get used to and could make the car tricky to save when I got it wrong. Brakes and transmission seemed fine, didn't really notice any problems there apart from maybe 2nd and 3rd being a bit far apart. All in all it was fairly competent but just too safe to be fast, a decent race tune perhaps.
@DolHaus – 1:17.324
DC - 7
More understeer than I wanted, had intentions to fix that but ran out of time
@gtmetacrisis – 1:17.987
DC - 7
Wasn't bad, handled very much as I expected when reading the tune sheet. Fair amount of grip, decent in the slow sections but struggled to hold speed in the longer turns. The car did seem to move about a bit on top of the chassis, I have a feeling the dampers or ARB's maybe could have done with being stiffer. The transmission was a bit too short, I found myself bouncing off the limitter at the end of the main straight, probably could have dropped a 10th by just stretching the final out a bit. Overall it felt fine but just not suited to the track, on a tighter, twistier circuit this thing would probably be quite fun but just didn't do well in the longer, faster corners.
@ImToLegitToQuit – 1:17.238
DC - 9
I quite liked this one, it felt a bit fidgety and a little nervous but it was very responsive to being driven hard. The throttle response was sharp and the diff settings allowed more direct control over the rear wheels, this suited my driving style more than the open diffs found on a lot of the other cars. The other perk of this was when the rear got a bit nervous or unbalanced it was easy to regain control without shedding too much speed. The one thing I didn't really like was the transmission, it just didn't work with auto and kept upshifting in both of the long corners which made it difficult to hold the line. Apart from that I thoroughly enjoyed the car, it just felt wild enough to be fun but not so over the top that I didn't feel confident pushing it, great job.
@krenkme – 1:18.115
DC - 8
Easy to drive but really not suited to the track. The car would do everything you asked it to in a stable and predictable fashion and I found myself getting progressively faster with it but it was just too soft and wobbly for a high load circuit like Big Willow. In the long corners it was dragging its door handles along the pavement and yawing like a boat in a storm, the softness helped with the bumpy surface but it just killed the speed in the corners. The other problem was that I was bouncing off the limiter on the main straight and coming into the last corner, the transmission was just too short and killing the car in a straight line. These issues aside, I quite enjoyed learning and driving the car, had very few off's in it and it didn't stress me in the same way as some of the others.
@xande1959 – 1:18.678
DC - 6.5
Very stable but quite a lot of understeer, I just found that I couldn't sustain any speed through the corners because the car just wanted to plough wide at every opportunity. Wasn't bad on entry, the brakes felt competent and the stability gave confidence but once you were past this stage the car became hard to rotate and I found myself having to keep backing off the throttle in order to keep the nose pointed where I wanted it. In its favour though, the car was the easiest to recover with if you put a wheel on the dirt, didn't seem to lose as much grip and was quite forgiving.
Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 '13
@Badger66 – 1:18.053
DC - 7
A competent and stable tune, very easy to drive consistently. The main problem for was late corner rotation, the car just started to understeer in the longer turns and lost a fair bit of time as a result, I kept having to lift off to get the nose pointed back into the bend and that cost me a lot of speed on exit. I think the heavy nose is the cause of the understeer, the car just can't find the grip to keep rotating once you are past a certain amount of cornering load, this combined with the resistive forces generated by the rear toe in prevents the car from holding its line in the longer corners.
@brian wolf – 1:17.825
DC - 7.5
Surprisingly little to say about a car with such interesting and unusual methods used in tuning. The car wasn't bad, reasonable turn in, neutral mid corner and a bit of understeer on exit. It was far more conventional than I expected, the trans didn't feel unusual and the lift off oversteer never really materialised for more than a bit of a nod occasionally on entry. Overall it was fairly competitive and easy enough to drive but it didn't really do anything for me
@Lewis_Hamilton_ – 1:17.317
DC - 5.5
This thing was fast but a complete pain in the ass to drive. It was just so temperamental, the LSD felt like it was backwards with the Initial and Accel values, it would keep turning if you stayed on the throttle but push really wide if you lifted, this meant that you were fine if your line was perfect but if you came in a bit wide then you might as well pack your camel because you were definitely going on a trip through the desert. I had two clean laps in the car, both were mid/low 17s, the rest were in the 20-40 range because a small mistake on had lead to a massive problem, the car just felt too specialised and unforgiving. Credit where its due the car was fast and it certainly could have gone much faster, it just felt like the car was punishing me for being an average driver, it demanded way more than I was capable of giving in our short time together.
@Otaliema – 1:17.449
DC - 8.5
I quiet liked this one because it felt different to the others, it handled kind of like an MR in the way that it would suddenly turn in as soon as you lifted off the throttle. Took a while to get used to how sharply the car would turn in and every corner felt like an experiment as you could never really be entirely sure what it was going to do next. It wasn't unstable or difficult but it was slightly hard to predict on entry. I liked the brakes, they felt capable but didn't detract from the front end grip or cause it to straight line. The one thing I found a little bit difficult to work with was the way the car delivered its power on exit, it had too much rear grip for me when combined with the sharp turn in, I feel I could have gone a fair bit faster if I could have used a bit of slip to sustain speed through the corners. With the Accel being so open I just couldn't spin the rear tyres when I needed to and often ended up either having to lift to get the nose tucked in or run wide and compromise entry into the next corner. All in all a decent hot lap tune that treads the line between safe and psychotic, I think if it was a little bit less safe then it would be a real contender in the right hands
@shaunm80 – 1:17.985
DC - 7.5
I found this car a little bit hard to get along with initially, it felt a little bit vague and hesitant, couldn't quite work out what it wanted me to do with it. It seemed to only like one particular line, it was pretty quick once you found that line but it felt kind of unhappy if you fell out of that groove. I liked the brakes, they were like dropping an anchor out the back in terms of slowing down but I'm not sure if they fit the track that well. On the few corners where I wanted to shed a lot of speed quickly they were perfect but I found it difficult to gently shed speed with them during the longer corners, they were just a bit too aggressive. When it was in the groove the car was a pleasure to drive but once you left the groove the car didn't really know what to do with itself.
@sinof1337 – 1:19.047
DC - 6.5
The car felt fairly grippy and stable on entry but suffered really badly with understeer on exit. The general stability and composure on entry gave initial confidence but that went away as soon as the front outside tire lit up and the nose ploughed wide. I think that the car was a little bit too heavy for the springs and the dampers might be too soft as well, you could feel the car wobbling around on top of the wheels every time the weight shifted, took a long time to regain that composure. This track doesn't really have enough long straights for the extra muscle to be effective, the small amounts of time you gain on the straights before and after the last corner just don't add up with the large amounts of time you are losing around the rest of the track.
Maybe I'll finish it and post by the end of the competition if test drivers want to drive it just as a bonus. So, it looks like everyone has submitted their GT tunes. Right? Let the testing begin.
just as I did your Boss. Always good to have another tune to compare to, even if it will likely cause me to hate my own more. 
I took a different approach to this car than I normally do I set up as more race style than TT style so it's stable but I'm sacrificing speed to get it. I loosened it up as much as I thought I could and still keep it so you can could lay into the car and pretty well know it's not going to put you in a wall.
